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Those who still want to help have options. Both the French and Italian governments have set up programs that will allow people to sponsor tsunami orphans. In the U.S., the Christian mission Gospel for Asia, based in Carrollton, Texas, is raising funds to build 10 "transition homes" in Sri Lanka alone. But there's also the risk that with so many bereft children, local governments won't be able to find new homes for all of them, which could make thousands of orphans permanent wards of their respective states. Perhaps then their adoption by foreigners will not seem such...
With nearly $4 billion pledged in tsunami relief so far, the governments of the world's wealthiest countries have sought to lay to rest doubts about the largeness of their largesse. But the sobering backdrop to that rush of official sympathy is a sorry history of half-finished aid efforts. The Iranian city of Bam, for example, where an earthquake killed some 30,000 people in December 2003, has so far seen only $17 million of the $1.1 billion in aid pledged by foreign governments at the time of the disaster, Iran's leaders say. To do better this time...
...State Colin Powell said that "we will continue responding to legitimate demands until $350 [million] is reached." The $350 million offered by the White House will be drawn against existing funds for the U.S. Agency for International Development, and Congress sets that agency's budget. Any further increases in tsunami relief will need approval from Congress, where budget leaders have suggested that up to $1 billion in added funding could be approved...
...Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton to lead an effort to drum up private-sector support. "The greatest source of America's generosity is not our government," he said. "It's the good heart of the American people." To sweeten the deal, Congress is allowing taxpayers to claim tsunami-relief donations on their 2004 returns if the contributions are made by the end of this month...
...been in war and I've been through a number of hurricanes, tornadoes and otherrelief operations, but I have never seen anything like this." COLIN POWELL, U.S. Secretary of State, after surveying the devastation in Aceh, Indonesia, caused by the tsunami that struck...